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Literature and Evil
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809.9338
EAN: 9780714503462
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0714503460
Label: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: April 01, 2001
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Studio: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
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Editorial Review:"Literature is not innocent," Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. "It is guilty and should admit itself so." The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight outstanding authors: Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Blake, Michelet, Kafka, Proust, Genet and De Sade.Born in France in 1897, Georges Bataille was a radical philosopher, novelist and critic whose writings continue to exert a vital influence on today's literature and thought.
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Rating:  - The postmodern canon
If you're into postmodernism and literary theory, you can't go wrong by reading this book. And what makes this book a cut above most books in po-mo literary theory is that it's got an accessibe layer that any fool can understand. There's also an esoteric underbelly that only people who've read Nietzsche closely will get. But the only time the esoteric underbelly becomes important is in the chapter on Genet.
Bataille claims Genet did not know how to give, because he liked to betray people. And ... Read More
Rating: - Literature and Evil
Georges Battaille throws down a challange to Jean-Paul Sartre, who held that "literature is inncocent". Bataille, in his examination of such figures as Emily Bronte, Sade, Baudelaire, Genet, Kafka and Michelet, and the component of "evil" in their works, argues that literature is, in fact, "guilty" and that, moreover, it must acknowledge itself as such. In his reading of these literary figures, Bataille proceeds to analyse literature's complicity with evil and how this ... Read More
Rating: - The Death Drive in literature
In this short (and at times very difficult) collection of essays, Bataille challenges Sartre's view that "literature is innocent". A selective survey of key writers - including Bronte, Genet and Sade - shows that literature is a necessary antidote to the overarching Superego and Capitalism's emphasis on the Reality Principle. In this way, Bataille shows that literture is in fact evil, in that it is anti-utilitiarian and thus embedded in the childish Pleasure Principle. While Bataille seems ... Read More
Rating:  - Well writing articles.
In this book Bataille seems to tell how evil is in literature and in life.How near is the eroticism and the death. Brilliant.
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